marillion ( misplaced childhood )

A favorite of mine ,i personally feel it is one of there more better albums, their debut A script for a jesters tear was the better record, but on marillions misplaced childhood has one crummy song on it for me it,s the hit KAYLEIGH too radio friendlyfor my ears the BITTER SUITE is best song, next best song is HEART OF LOTHIAN because fish was the singer and of scottish heritage it more listenable to me because i am also half scot, the LORDS OF THE BACKSTAGE is a song with great melody, steve rothery solo,s are just awesome, thanks for taking the time to read my review of misplaced childhood.
of five stars grant

It would have been five stars for me if KAYLEIGH was absent.

We all loved Kayleigh. Don’t forget just how important it was in the otherwise bleak 1980’s music scene that one of our own was achieving commercial success in addition to making great progressive rock music.

It's flat out a brilliant album, not many bands I feel have multiple masterpieces, Marillion does with Misplaced Childhood and Brave.

Edited by Catcher10 - December 31 2020 at 10:30

Wonderful album, indeed. Back in 1985 I found a cassette with a couple of songs (I think only the first three songs) of this album on it and it was what led me to Marillion. It was actually my older brother who first bought the Misplaced Childhood LP, then Fugazi, and then, when I had some money, I bought Script. The latter is still my favourite of them, but MC is a wonderful album too - maybe the neo-prog classic of all time because it reached far beyond the mere prog audience.

Now here's one I need to spin more often!